With Auburn’s victory over Alabama, five teams control their destiny. If those teams win, I have almost no doubt they are in the field.
Clemson looks substantially better than South Carolina, so we’ll assume Clemson wins. If that changes, I’ll make a ton of updates. We’ll also update this continuously.
We’ll start the discussion with a few points. First, the committee members change from year-to-year. Like new justices on the Supreme Court, the changing composition of a body can affect how they view things. Just because Tom Osborne’s 2014 committee thought something doesn’t mean the 2017 committee with new members will view things the same.